sebi:CO/109/ISD/12/2004
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Facts / Headnote
Restrained the nine noticees from accessing the securities market and from dealing in securities for a period of 10 years.
Provisions invoked
- s. 4(3)
- s. 11
Regulations
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 11
Parties
- DSQ Holdings Ltd.
- Hulda Properties and Trades Ltd.
- Dinesh Dalmia
- Cooltex Commodities Ltd.
- Greenfield Investments Pvt. Ltd
- Arun Polymers P. Ltd
- Aspolite Barter Pvt. Ltd
- Naina Barter Pvt. Ltd
- Ashok Sharma
Holding
The nine noticees indulged in trades that were not intended to transfer beneficial ownership but were intended to manipulate the price of the scrip of DSQ Industries Ltd. and to create an artificial market for its shares, and are restrained from accessing the securities market and dealing in securities for 10 years.
Full text
Page 2 of 35 The following were the observations made in the course of the investigation: (a) The total paid-up share capital of DSQ Industries is Rs. 20,04,29,160 consisting of 2,00,42,916 shares of Rs. 10/- each.
Page 3 of 35 Nationalised Bank shareholding to be 3939300 shares (19.65%), other body corporates to be 62,47,000 shares (31.17%) and shareholding of promoter companies is not stated at all in the distribution schedule filed with the CSE.
Page 4 of 35 Biyani group were the major brokers. SMIFS Group did a transaction of 62,000 shares among themselves on January 9, 2001 and on the same day Harish Biyani also sold 2 lakh shares on behalf of Greenfield Investments and the same was bought by them for another DSQ Group entity viz. Hulda Properties and Trades Limited (hereinafter referred to as “Hulda”). During January 8-10, 2001 Harish Biyani sold 6,50,000 shares for Greenfield and bought the same shares for other DSQ group entities. Further on February 13, 2001, SMIFS and Biyani Securities Limited (hereinafter referred to as “Biyani”) entered into synchronized transactions and in this trade the buying broker was Biyani and the selling broker was SMIFS. Both the brokers acted on behalf of Hulda.
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